Joni Mitchell, May 1972.
funds for indigenous communities affected by the canada wildefires
- grassy meadows first nations (ontario) needs funds for an escape route
- odawa first nations (quebec/ontario) is raising funds for evacuees
- algonquins of barriere (mitchikanibikok inik in alberta) lake mutual aid request
- if you’re near gatineau, you can drop off food donations for mitchikanibikok inik at the ramada plaza; you can also email info/@/health.rapidlake.com with mutual aid donations. please note that the maniwaki native friendship center is now closed to donations
- if you’re directly affected, the pueblo action alliance has developed a guide for DIY filtration for the smoke
i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked.
Evelyn Brent & Louise Brooks in Frank Tuttle’s LOVE EM AND LEAVE EM (1926)
"Andy drew this for me right before I cut my hair, weeks before the suit was ready."
stop calling natasha lyonne straight she is a merry prankster
Happy Herc
In a lot of northern Indian Buddhist art, Hercules is depicted as the Buddha’s bodyguard.
This tradition of depicting Hercules as Buddha’s bodyguard started in the Greco-Bactrian kingdom of Gandhara, a part of Northern India conquered by Alexander the Great. This is important because Gandhara just happens to be the place Buddhism spread to the far east (it’s “the west” in the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West).
Hercules acquired a scary, bestial mien and thunderbolt swords in Asia via association with Buddhist guardian monsters, the Vajrapani, who had the traditional job of protecting the Buddha. Hercules and the Vajrapani were confused with each other and traits of one rubbed off on the other. This slowly transformed him into a thunderer all the way to Japan and Vietnam.
So in essence, these Buddhist temple guard statues found as far away as Vietnam and Japan started as statues of Hercules. That’s why the original illustration is so fascinating to me; depicting Hercules as monster-like and fierce-faced with a double-weapon.
To those saying “the Greek name is actually HERACLES, Hercules is the Roman name…”
…you are wrong.
Hercules is a legitimate alternate and Greek pronounciation of his name. The Romans were introduced to Greek religion by Southern Italian Greek colonies founded in the 6th Century BC. Like many other languages, Greek had tremendous regional variations, and the Southern Italian Greek colonies were especially known for this. Among other things, they had distinctive pronunciations, like Hercules instead of Heracles and Ulysses instead of Odysseus, and because the Italians were introduced to Greek culture and religion by these colonies, they mirrored their pronunciations.
In fact, it is very natural to understand where this way of saying it came from if you know a thing or two about the predictable laws of linguistics and linguistic change. “Cle” sounds in the middle of a word, naturally, smooth out with the addition of a u between the c and l. Like rocks, hard sounds erode down with time. Take, for example, how many Americans intuitively say “nuclear” as “nucular” (including Homer Simpson and George W. Bush). In the case of nucular, linguistics predicted this pronounciation would develop before it even happened. Nuclear, Nucular, Heracles, Hercules.
So yes, Hercules is what Greeks called him in certain places and it is totally legitimate to refer to him by that name in a Greek context.
It is worth noting that there were accents and dialects in the Ancient World, but we know very little about them, including what they sounded like. For example, St. Augustine was said to speak Latin with a thick North African accent. What that sounded like we do not know, but we have stories of those who heard him speak live and they said St. Augustine’s accent was so thick that what he said was mostly unintelligible.
I dislike correcting people, but I do like correcting the correctors. Being pedantic is like choosing a life of violence, the life of the gun. If you choose to live by it, you will eventually die by it.
Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact - https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182121455/indian-child-welfare-act-supreme-court-decision?origin=NOTIFY
Clark Kent in Superman For All Seasons (1998) | Art by Tim Sale
[ID: 3 comic edits of Clark as a teenager. 1: Clark wears a brown varsity jacket with an “S” on it and holds the rim of his blue baseball cap in both hands like he just took it off. 2: Clark in a short-sleeve white button-up and brown pants walking away from the view with two books under his arm. 3: Clark in profile wearing a red flannel and blue overalls, standing with his hands behind his back. End ID]
